Improving post-mortem surface documentation with a CT mounted marker board

Journal of Forensic Radiology and Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 213-216

  Sekula, Agnieszka D ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a   Breitbeck, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3D visualization; Forensic documentation; Image transformation; Photogrammetry; Surface scanning; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MARKER BOARD; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTMORTEM SURFACE DOCUMENTATION; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRTOPSY;

EID: 84911981470     PISSN: 22124780     EISSN: 22124799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jofri.2014.06.005     Document Type: Article

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